Timothy Alexander McCreadyhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com
Emperor-Wizard-Hermit-Pope of the 159 Manning Temple Lodge Of The unHoly Crimson GhostMon, 20 Jul 2015 08:14:26 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/741fbeda60565b4c29f4ef2eda7f6edc?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngTimothy Alexander McCreadyhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com
Look!https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/look/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/look/#commentsSat, 18 Jul 2015 17:54:17 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12250]]>Look at this picture of me! It’s funny because I ate a nibble of mushrooms about an hour before this picture was taken and now it looks like how it would if the viewer were tripping on mushrooms.
Tonight Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE are playing at Casbah in Collingwood for the 3rd time! It’ll be me on rhythm guitar and keys, Eric Woolston on drums, Del Cowsill on bass, and Danny Gorman on lead guitar. 4 piece band.
Our next Toronto show is Thursday July 23rd, making our Kensington Market debut at Supermarket!! It’ll be the same band as we’re doing in Collingwood tonight except Del will play rhythm guitar because Craig Mailman will be on bass, and Alan Snoddy will also be there part of the night playing lead guitar. 5.5 piece band.
Fill Spectre have been making some new recordings with Ian Sattler engineering at his studio over the past week and a half. We’ll be playing a free show with Colaheads and the Graffiti Crimes on Saturday July 25th at Redlight. Fill Spectre features Jason Sherritt on lead vox and rhythm guitar, Travis Kiid on lead guitar, Jesse Bellon on lead guitar, me on bass, and Matthew Cosgrove on drums. 5 piece band.]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/look/feed/1timmccreadyNXNE 2015: Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE @ Yonge and Dundas Squarehttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/nxne-2015-good-enough-live-karaoke-yonge-and-dundas-square-for-nxne-2015/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/nxne-2015-good-enough-live-karaoke-yonge-and-dundas-square-for-nxne-2015/#commentsMon, 25 May 2015 15:26:43 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12210]]>It’s official, we’re Toronto’s new band. For better or for worse, we’re what you deserve. Sunday June 21st from noon to 5pm at Yonge Dundas Square. It’s 5 hours of Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE rocking what some would call the Times Square of Toronto, featuring many special guests singers and maybe even YOU!!!!!!!!
It’s real: You can sign up to sing here! From NXNE.com – “Ever wanted to take the NXNE YDS Stage but never had the headlining superstar status it inevitably requires? Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE is here to help your dreams come true.”
Here’s some info on the hosts I’ve asked to act as MC’s throughout the show. As they’re all about to find out, taking the stage with Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE can be like a roller coaster ride; both terrifying and exhilarating! Not for the faint of heart.noon – Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman – Collectively known as DaBu, they are the founders of Choir! Choir! Choir! a twice weekly drop-in singing group in Toronto. What started as a small gathering of friends now brings out hundreds of non-professional singers each week and has led to gigs opening for Jay Leno at Massey Hall, singing with Patti Smith at the AGO, and on the Juno Awards with Tegan and Sara. For more info, check out choirchoirchoir.com.

2pm – Nick Sewell – As a member of storied TO rock outfits such as Biblical, The Illuminati and Tchort, Nick Sewell has been releasing and performing loud guitar music for over 20 years. He is currently touring in support of Biblical’s debut LP Monsoon Season, which was released to critical acclaim in 2014 by New Damage Records.

3pm – Justin Peroff and Mikey B Richwan – Justin Peroff; Broken Social Scene drummer, artist manager, DJ, 159 Manning co-programmer, day dreamer and Good Enough Live Karaoke fan-boy. His co-host, Mikey B Rishwain was born and raised in Stockton California, home of Chris Isaak and Pavement. Mikey eventually relocated to Montreal, where he rapidly established himself as a G ranking in the Top 100 in Nightlife Magazine’s Montreal “Personalities that changed our nightlife”, after being in the city for only a year! He has been Programming Director for M FOR MONTREAL since 2007.

NO COVER at all upcoming Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE dates:Tuesday May 26th at Clintons Tavern after Choir! Choir! Choir! – 10:15pm to 1:30am.Tuesday June 2nd at Clinton’s Tavern after Choir! Choir! Choir! 10:15pm to 1:30amSaturday June 6th at Dundas West Fest on the Beer Store Parking Lot Stage 1:15pm and 5:15pmSaturday June 6th at JCMH – 10:15pm to 2amFriday June 12th at Wrongbar – 9:30pm to 2amSunday June 21st at Yonge Dundas Square – noon to 5pm

]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/nxne-2015-good-enough-live-karaoke-yonge-and-dundas-square-for-nxne-2015/feed/0timmccready20 years of Doing-It-Myselfhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/20-years-of-doing-it-myself/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/20-years-of-doing-it-myself/#commentsFri, 15 May 2015 17:50:17 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12186]]>I put up the FB event yesterday for what’s officially known as M for 159 Manning, colloquially known at the 6th Annual 159 Manning BBQ. I’ve already reached the limit of number of people FB will allow me to invite, so feel free to add yourself or invite your friends to the event.

This past NYE party commemorated 10 years of me living in Toronto at 159 Manning, and this summers BBQ coincides with 20 years of DIY for me; releasing music, playing, organizing and promoting shows, etc… always with whatever limited resources and talent I had at my disposal. Here’s the first show poster I ever drew, for the first show I ever played, and the first show I ever promoted. July 21st 1995 at the Acapulco Delight in Windsor. $2 at the door, includes a free pop.
Wonkavision’s $3 Basement Party was the first tape I released, recorded in May and June of ’95. I listened to the first half of it with Andrea last week, and I gotta say, you’d have to have a VERY open mind and consider the context to appreciate what we were doing at the time. There will be no Wonkavision reunions, no re-release of the recordings. I just want to make a point of saying “I started spending my time and energy doing this, 20 years ago”.
I could tell you the good things about that tape, but to cater to the haters; maybe the songs were terrible, maybe the lyrics were silly, maybe the recordings sounded like shit, but I don’t care. I had a 2-track Teac reel-to-reel, a couple high-impedance mics, the same frankenstein drum kit I have now, the same Traynor PA head and Peavy guitar cabinet I play through now, a shitty guitar and a bass, and a Casio keyboard to pull that project together with $0. I’m proud of it, because I made something out of nothing.
I sold about 300 copies of $3 Basement Party back in the day. I cut out and colored all the covers by hand, and even wrote out all the songs on each and every copy of the tape labels. The internet didn’t exist back then, at least not for me, so what else was I going to do with my time? At any rate, I think 16 year old me would be pretty excited about this party on June 19th.

]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/20-years-of-doing-it-myself/feed/1timmccreadyR.I.P. Vassilhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/r-i-p/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/r-i-p/#commentsFri, 03 Apr 2015 06:33:33 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12135]]>I’ve cried 4 times in the past 12 hours thinking about Vassil. I’m glad I’ve got this picture of him with his gold low-rider bike in front of 159 Manning 2 years ago. He kept showing up at the house over the past 7 or 8 years because he was often friends with one of my roommates, whoever happened to be living with me at the time, and we’d see each other at shows. He was always good vibes. Through so many ups and downs I’ve had, he always seemed genuinely relaxed and happy to see me. I’ve thrown less than 20 major parties here in the past 10 years, but I think he attended at least half of them playing in one of his bands like City Sweethearts, Rad Habits, Fill Spectre, or just hanging out. He’s been a welcome part of what’s happened at 159 Manning since I moved in just over a decade ago. We had a lot of common interests and people in our lives. The day this picture was taken he was here with me (not one of my roommates), before a Fill Spectre rehearsal.
A couple of weeks ago I got stupid drunk at Red Light on the Sunday night before St Patrick’s day doing too many shots with Julian, and a Thin Lizzy song came on and in my drunken ecstatic state I felt the need to tell facebook how much I loved them, and I told Vassil I was proud that we’d played together. I woke up the next morning feeling like an idiot for posting online while I was obliterated…and you know what? I still feel like an idiot, but I’m glad I told him I was proud I played with him, because I am. That’s the last interaction I got to have with him. He was a universally well-liked person. I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word against Vassil. He’s a person I’ll miss having in my life.]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/r-i-p/feed/0timmccreadyGood Enough LIVE KARAOKE Sign Up Sheet From Thursday March 19th @ the Garrisonhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/good-enough-live-karaoke-sign-up-sheet-from-thursday-march-19th-the-garrison/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/good-enough-live-karaoke-sign-up-sheet-from-thursday-march-19th-the-garrison/#commentsWed, 25 Mar 2015 04:26:22 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12116]]>Here’s the sign-up sheet from Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE at the Garrison on Thursday March 19th.
I think it’s a pretty good representation of what we get asked to play in an average night. This is the project I spend most of my time on these days. I’ve currently got 6 shows either confirmed or penciled in for April, including our first out of town show! Each show for April is with a slightly different lineup, but I’m playing all the shows, and Jesse Bellon will be playing most of them on lead guitar. I think the aim right now is to keep the regular rotation of 10 to 12 regular members to play in the band (generally as a quartet or quintet), people committed to working at learning all the songs, and like the idea of playing for 3 to 5 hours a night. My magic number I want to get to is 500 songs in our songbook. I think we’re almost at 300 songs right now. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be part of the Good Enough LIVE KARAOKE family, hit me up. I will update when all April dates are confirmed. ]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/good-enough-live-karaoke-sign-up-sheet-from-thursday-march-19th-the-garrison/feed/0timmccreadyThis Thursdayhttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/this-thursday/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/this-thursday/#commentsMon, 23 Mar 2015 20:51:16 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12107]]>The 4 of us in Fill Spectre got together yesterday evening at Ian Sattler’s east-end rehearsal and recording studio to record a couple of songs for a compilation tape Ian’s putting together. The studio sounds great, is very clean and feels both relaxed and isolated.
We’ll be playing this Thursday at Velvet Underground with Ian’s band Wave of Terror, and Bad Breed!
Doors at 8:30pm, Fill Spectre goes on at 9pm, Bad Breed at 9:40pm, Wave of Terror at 10:20pm, live music is over by 11pm! Like this: BAM! BAM! BAM! 3 great bands, 1 right after the other and you can still get up at 7am the next morning for work no problem! ]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/this-thursday/feed/0timmccreadyGood Enough LIVE KARAOKE Tour Dates Jan 2015https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/good-enough-live-karaoke-tour-dates-jan-2015/
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]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/good-enough-live-karaoke-tour-dates-jan-2015/feed/0timmccreadyJanuary-Toronto-DatesMinor Treathttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/minor-treat/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/minor-treat/#commentsTue, 16 Dec 2014 18:36:28 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12088]]>Back in June, Chris Murphy did a set of Minor Threat songs at the 159 Manning BBQ with my karaoke band Good Enough. All the material that day was from the band’s first two 7″ records. The reason we did this is because he and I are both big fans of the band, so why not?
We’re getting the band back together tomorrow to play the album Out Of Step, which represents the 2nd half of Minor Threat’s career. Why are we doing this? Because we love Minor Threat, so why not? Plus it’s a holiday toy drive. This is my poster:
This is Scott’s poster:

A few weeks ago Good Enough Live Karaoke (AKA Taxxx) backed up Buck 65 at the Danforth Music Hall, which got great reviews on A Music Blog Yea?, Exclaim and a bunch of other places, so we’re getting the band back together for NYE @ 159 Manning!! It was pretty exciting for all of us to play to a crowd of over 1000 people as part of the headlining act of the night, and I think it’ll be exciting for us to rip it up for 100 people in my basement on NYE.

I’ve also confirmed a NYE performance by the Milk Lines. Last time Jeff Clarke played in the basement at 159 Manning was on Halloween 2008 night at 5am. Mark Pesci was there and was the drunkest I’ve ever seen him before or since. I have a vague memory of him puking into a popcorn bowl. I think that might’ve been the night that caused him to give up drinking?
Jeff and I had an art show together back in 2008, at which neither of us sold anything. Maybe Jeff can bring some of those unsold paintings to sell on NYE. Hopefully their value has skyrocketed over the past 6 years.

There will be DJ sets on the main floor on NYE by Justin Peroff, Sunclef (both of whom played on Buck 65’s most recent album Neverlove) and Elaquent, with a late nite DJ set by TAIZA! There’ll also be performances in the basement by Green Rays and Wave of Terror. More info to come soon!!

I’ve started experimenting more with songwriting on my Triton Studio keyboard.

Enjoy:

]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/minor-treat/feed/0timmccreadyEnd Up Summer Updatehttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/end-up-summer-update/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/end-up-summer-update/#commentsThu, 28 Aug 2014 18:47:23 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12049]]>Greetings readers! It’s been over a month and a half since my last update. Micro-blogging about my life just isn’t as exciting as it used to be. Not that my life isn’t as exciting, it just feel like I’m getting diminishing returns on the rewards of recapping everything I do. I’ve been considering retiring this blog soon, and start posting from www.159manning.com. I haven’t made up my mind yet, but it’s a reoccurring thought originating many months ago.Good Enough Live Karaoke are playing at Parts & Labour tonight! Wini Lo wrote a nice article about us that went up on BlogTO this past Saturday.
I was on 2 hits of acid when we did the interview last month on a Friday afternoon in Trinity Bellwoods. It was a beautiful day, we’d just had a great meal at P&L and I was surrounded by friends, so I was feeling pretty great.
One of our karaoke regulars Rhett Moritawho just happens to be a professional photographer, had taken some pictures of us at Clinton’s a few days before the article went up, so it was perfect timing!

I did a photo shoot with Sloan at 159 Manning last month (because I also happen to be a professional photographer); publicity photos for their new album Commonwealth which comes out Tuesday Sept 9th! Earlier this week, one of the photos was featured in USA Today!
If you didn’t already hear about it, check out this video Scott Wade shot of Sloan’s Chris Murphy singing Minor Threat – Seeing Red with Good Enough, which also happened to take place at 159 Manning.

Yesterday I got to captain a boat, as part of a short-film shoot Alison Honey of Park Bench Films is working on.
I want a boat of my own now! It definitely beats cruise ships.

]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/end-up-summer-update/feed/2timmccreadySomebody To Shovehttps://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/somebody-to-shove/
https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/somebody-to-shove/#commentsSat, 12 Jul 2014 21:02:24 +0000http://timmccready.wordpress.com/?p=12032]]>My dad is visiting from Windsor this weekend. Jennifer Toole took this picture of us at the grand opening of the Clint Roenisch gallery on Thursday.
Good Enough Live Karaoke played to a packed house at Clinton’s Tavern on Wednesday evening, and we’ll be doing it again next Friday July 18th @ Junction City Music Hall!
Our repertoire has finally reached over 200 songs! I’m hoping we hit 300 songs by the end of August, and 500 songs by the end of 2014. It’s good to have goals. Soul Asylum – Somebody to Shove is one of the new songs we learned last week.
Join our FB Group to check out our song list, and stay updated on upcoming events. Hit me up for a quote if you’d like to book us for your Wedding, Bar or Bat mitzvah, Bachelorette, Graduation, Corporate Event, Birthday Party or BBQ. If you’re a successful solo artist (or an unsuccessful solo artist with money to burn), we’re also a 4-piece backing band for hire! We love to play and want to do it everyday!!]]>https://timmccready.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/somebody-to-shove/feed/0timmccready